NALLURI

UNITED KINGDOM (see also List of Individuals)

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1.10.1937 Repalle/IN - 14.12.2003 Newcastle/UK

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Chandramouli Nalluri graduated as a civil engineer from Madras University, India, and then worked for several years on the hydroelectric development in India. He continued his studies at the University of Toulouse and there obtained his doctorate. Later he attended the postgraduate diploma course at the International Institute of Hydraulic Engineering in Delft. Nalluri accepted in the early 1970s a position in the hydraulics staff of Newcastle University. He retired from that position in 2001 after having also been a visiting professor of Los Andes University in Bogotá, Colombia, and had been instrumental in establishing a wide-ranging collaboration between both universities. Between 2000 and 2003, Nalluri worked to a considerable time at the Institute of Geosciences, Kiel University, Germany.

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From the 1970s, Nalluri became known in the field of sediment transport over fixed bed conveyances. A particular application posed sewers in which sediment is deposited if the flow velocity is below the entrainment velocity. Nalluri made notable research both towards the entrainment characteristics and the transport of sediment in such sewers. The results from these studies were guidelines that were distributed worldwide. He also collaborated on the impressive Hydraulic structures book in collaboration with three colleagues. Nalluri was an enthusiastic member and supporter of the International Association of Hydraulic Research IAHR. His concern for overseas postgraduate students in Newcastle who had financial problems was demonstrated by establishing a fund in his wife's memory designed to help them in their need - a gesture that was typical of the generous man he was.

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_{Mayerle, R., Nalluri, C., Novak, P. (1991). Sediment transport in rigid bed conveyances. Journal Hydraulic Research 29(4): 475-495. P}

_{Nalluri, C., Featherstone, R.E. (2001). Civil engineering hydraulics. Blackwell: Oxford, 3rd ed. Novak, P., Nalluri, C. (1978). Sewer design for no-sediment deposition. Proc. Institution Civil Engineers Part 2 65: 669-674; 67: 251-252.}

_{Novak, P., Nalluri, C. (1984). Incipient motion of sediment particles over fixed beds. Journal Hydraulic Research 22(3): 181-197.}

_{Novak, P., Moffat, A.I.B., Nalluri, C., Narayanan, R. (2001). Hydraulic structures. Spon: London, 3rd ed.}

_{Novak, P. (2004). Dr. Chandramouli Nalluri. IAHR Newsletter 42(3): 46. P}